Telegram-herald., 1887-09-02
HOOKS" BOOM
MAYOR sNooNs BUSY Win vEToEs.
Esis Lines. Donny tiass sna Franchises
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Toths Editor 81 The TEi s8EAx HEKAs.0
DKAE slx-1hfee weeks have passed
since my last letter bai you woul1 not
woadsf xl il # you Anew how much have
had 70 80. This toua Is getting sc that IL
takes heap Of sias 10 run II. | have had
10 preside over about foar Coancil meetings
within rvsaiy days, We have lad - much
work 10 do.
You see, the Corners has went Wild On
railroads lately and every mAA that knows
hew % spike down rail, OF get bank
note discounted. las applied for franchise.
Why, Il beats the oldest inhabitants bow
We are improving. / have had 10 veto two
different plans that contemplated put
ting a belt line between ny store
and my bsra on the back
end Of the same lot. We have granted =
franchise for 4 stsesi car line on Dslnlong-
ST.. furi0ag-st. and a feeder leading through
Dead-msn's alley. besides . dummy line 10
GFnmblton srd Pine hoiler.
Potts and some others kicked al having
a car track run through their borss- block
aud street lawn, but We decided against
them on the ground thar the Corners can
not LET private interests stand ia the way Of
her phenomena. boom.
A belt line is also projected, running
from Jimson Corners down past the village
pound, following Potts run aud skirting the
goose pond on the nigh side and passing
the saw mill and grist mill.
This will make an immense public i'm
provement and will acc0modate ali the
mills and the cant-hook factory.
Alderman Bilson wanted street LEFT
70 drive ON, just because he happened 70
own an old plug buckskln boss, but We sat
down on him you bet. We told him OFF,
that be could not drive alongside OF Car
track, he had better move out. or build
him q private Bull-yard Of his own.
Tns only trouble with rs, We have not
got streets enoufh. If We had more streets
we would have more railroads, so We
are going 10 lay OF six or seven more
streets as soon as the City surveyor gets a
little spare time 20 work at 1t.
Two newspapers started here during Aug
ust and one more saloon. The saloon-keep-
ers name ia Schlokenscheiftershn be is
German and very fieshy in habit. lie is
going 10 have the rest of his name painted
on the front as soon as he can build an ex-
tension. He claims that the addition OF
two newspaper Offices ought to at least sup
port az extra saloon in town.
One newspaper is called The Cant Hook
Chopper. The other The Michigan Splitter.
and If the chips don't fly whes the editors
get fairly settled down 10 business then my
name is not Snooks.
John 8. Snorter, the editor OF the ChoppcT,
is now busy building pig pen and hen
house combined, so he aid not publish this
week, but be will come out next week with
flaming editorial on the proposed Cherry
tree route and dummy line 70 Mud Lake.
Shorter favors the line. but Botterson Wall.
Of the Splitter, opposes it, so l expect some
fun.
did think of interposing my veto on
that route, but found that the Council had
the wires ali laid 70 pass il over ny mead,
SO ] let-er-rip.
This tjwH is bound TO outrank anythink
in this section, and il is ali in vain this
Slab-town AMI Bog-city proposes TO get
married so as TO beat Us. They can't get
there not if Can't Hook Corners knows
herseif.
Lots on the principal streets are now held
at Il dollars foot and still rising.
Yours boomingly,
SoLi&AS SEooKs,
MayOr etc.